FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE
The largest series of climate-change demonstrations ever
REPORTS: Mar Albarañez 2º ECA
Activists
all around the world are preparing for what they hope will be the
largest series of climate-change demonstrations ever, with thousands
of events planned in over 150 countries.
On
September 20 and September 27, a broad coalition of environmental
groups are calling on workers and students to participate in a Global
Climate strike,
and to walk out of their schools and workplaces to “demand an end
to the age of fossil fuels.” The Climate Strike movement is led in
part by Greta Thunberg, the sixteen-year-old Swedish activist whose
confrontational
speech
at a United Nations climate conference went viral in 2018.
U.N.
diplomats will convene again in New York next week for the
organization's 2019
Climate Action Summit
,
at which Secretary General António Guterres is expected to urge
world leaders to commit to more aggressive emissions reduction
targets.
While
all that’s going on, activists in Colorado and beyond hope to bring
attention to the urgent need for climate action with rallies,
protests, town halls and more.
_WESTWORLD
18-9-2019_
